Quotes By Billy Corgan

To be able to put your arms around 24 years of music, it's really fun.

If you don't fit into this kind of like gossipy, trendy, Web-hit thingy, you're relegated to sort of second-class celebrity status.

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.

People try to make a big deal, like I don't want to play my old songs. That's not it. I don't want to play my old songs if that's my only option. That's a different thing.

I mean, I'm certainly not a 'teaophyte,' or whatever the word would be.

You're in a band 24 hours a day.

I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.

More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many times you've proven it to them.

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

I work differently than most people.

I don't want to be a dead hero.

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

I still believe in my country.

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

All I can go on is my own value system.

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.

I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.

I'm a really honest person.

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.

I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take.

As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.